Expose basic transaction counts through API

[GensHaze]

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Description

Hello,

I love Firefly. I have integrated it into my daily life. I was hoping to implement it into my Homepage, using a custom API widget. I've looked through the v1 and v2 endpoints, though I don't think I've spotted any existing feature similar to this.

Solution

I'd love it if Firefly could expose just basic counts of what you've transacted during any given period of time. One single API endpoint that would give you (perhaps based on any given parameters) - current week's transactions, current month transactions, year to date, any specified year... total amount of transactions recorded. Perhaps just something like... v2/transactions/counts?

My hope is to set my homepage widget like
FireFlyIII
[Transactions Recorded This Week] [Transactions Recorded This Month] [Transactions Recorded This Year] [Transactions Recorded All Time]

Similar to how I have set it up with Maloja:

What are alternatives?

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Additional context

I am hoping this is a simple addition, that would actually have tangible benefit. Whenever I see a '0' any given day, I think it would be a good reminder that I need to start recording any transactions I may have in mybacklog.

Thank you!

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[JC5]

In the mean time, every API endpoint exposes a "total" that you can use.

[GensHaze]

Thank you; using this total value, I was able to come up with a, although relatively jank, working solution. I created a bash script to poll the API's (returning a single transaction to reduce load), setting the needed date range parameters through the script itself, and save these values to a JSON that I expose through a bare nginx Docker container (that I use for other things too). I'll be running a cronjob for checking every few minutes, and that's that. It won't be real time, but good enough for now!

Thanks again for your hard work.